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I l UNITED STATES'- PATEN'T OFFICE.

EDWIN NORTON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR rIO HIMSELF AND OLIVER WV. NORTON, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED CO'FFE-E CANISTER AND MILL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,017, dated May '6, 1884.

Application filed October 20, 1883. (No model.)

'o rLZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWINNORTON, a citizen ofthe United States, residing in Chicago, in the'county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Combined Coffee Canister and Mill, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined coffee canister and mill; and it consists in the novel construction of lthe canister and mill, and in the means for combining the same, as hereinafter more fully described, shown, and claimed, whereby I am enabled to produce at small cost a convenient, durable, and efficient device for both keeping and grinding coffee, and by means of which the iiavor or aroma of the coffee may be preserved and theberries ground without removing them from the canister. The body of the canister I make, preferably, of cylindrical form, and ordinarily of enanieled tin, so as to give the device an ornamental appearance, the top and bottom of the canister being united to the body by folded seams without solder, as the heat of the solder would iniure the enameled surface.l The stationary grinding-shell is secured lto the bottom of the canister and projects up through an opening therein. The rotary grinding-cone is secured to a shaft which projects up through the canister, the shaft having abearing'at its upper end in the cover of the canister, and at its lower end in the top -part of the stationary grinding cone or shell. bottom is provided, 4so as to feed the coffeeberries into the mill. The rotary grindingcone is set upagainst the stationary shell, so as to grind coarse or fine, by means of an adjusting-screw, which passes through a bridgepiece secured tothe bottom of the canister by the same screws that attach the stationary grinding-shell thereto. These screws enter nuts soldered to the bottom of th`e canister on the inside. The shaft-bearing in the cover is formed by a washer secured thereto. The top of thev canister is provided with a seamless ring having screw-coupling devices which engage with corresponding coupling devices in the cover, so as to close the-*same tight and prevent the coffee losingits aroma. A removable box or receptacle is provided atthe bottom 0f the canister for the ground coffee, into A supplemental funnel-shapedY which the same iaus as it is ground by the mill. canister by means of a strap soldered to the canister and looped over the stiffening-wire at the top of the box. A spring-clamp fastens This box is hinged at its back to the the hinged box to the canister at its front, the

clamp tting over an exterior crimp in the canister, which forms part of the seam uniting the body of the canister to the bottom.

In the accompanying drawings, whichform a part of this specification, and in which simii lar letters of reference indicate like parts,

Figure l is a central Vertical section of a dey vice embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail side View of the cover, and Fig. 3 is a detail view of the hinge.

In thedrawings, A represents the body of the canister, secured to the top B by a double seam, a, and to the bottom C by al crimp or squeezed seam consisting of the exterior crimp, ct. in the body, in which fits the shoulder c, laid off on the vertical flange or rim c' of the botv"edge is turned up,forrning a liange o shoulder,

c, which fits against the shell D, for the purpose of strengthening and stiffening the bottom and bracing the shell D, and renderingits attachment to` the bottom rm. and secure. The upturned rim c and shoulder c also serve to strengthen and stiffen the bottom. lIhev shell D is provided with a shoulder or offset d3, upon which rests thel dished or funnelshaped supplemental bottom F, and also with openings al", through which the coffee-berries enter the mill.

depending flange or shoulder, f, which ts tight against the canister-body,so as to render the bottom firm and prevent its tilting. The supplementalbottom F not only serves to feed the coffee into the mill, but also to brace and steady the stationary grinding-shell D.

G is the rotary' grinding-cone, secured to The dished bottomv F has a IOO - or cast integral with the shaft y.'

hgs its-lower bearing, g,in the top part of thek Ashell D, and itsupper bearing inthe cover H.

The shaft g The coverH is iixed rigidly7 and securely to the top B by screw-'coupling devices 7L, which engage with corresponding coupling devices, li, on the seamless ring b, which is soldered or otherwise secured to the top B.

The screw-coupling devices h h are fully set forth and described in the Letters Patent No. 235,279, granted to nie for the sameon Decenil ber. 7, 1880, and for a more full and complete description ofthe same I would refer to said patent.

rlhe shaft-bearing in the cover H consistsof a washer, la?, which niay preferably be lnade of pressed paper, and secured to the cover H by a sheetmetal cap, '11.5, kwhich fits over the washer on the under sidethereof, and inside a corresponding recess, h, formed in the cover. Solder is used to secure the cap It tothe recess 7i" and confine the washer between the two. I is the crank, provided with the handle i. K is the box or receptacle for the ground coffee, composed of the body k. and bottoni k', united `together in any suitableA manner, but prefere ably by a folded seannkembracing a strengthening-wire, it. A- siniilar wire, s, is also provided `at the top of the box K, and the Abox is. hinged to the bottoni` C of the canister by a l strap, k, folded over the wire It" and soldered to the rim o of, said bottom. The strap kf projects ont through .a notch or opening, kif, in

the body lt. A springclamp, lr, inserted through a slot in the body kandsecured there-y to by a rivet, k7, serves to fasten the opposite side of the box K to the canister, said springclamp fitting over the crimp a in the body A. In Fig. 3 the vertical lines above and below the hinge are intended to indicate the side seams in the canister-body A and body lr of the box K, respectively.

Vhat I elai 1n isl. The combination, with a sheet-metal coffee-canister, of a removable box at thevbottoni of the same for the reception of the ground coffee, and a coffee-1nill having its stationary lgrinder secured to the sheet-metal bottom of f `grinding cone or shell proj ect-in g up through an opening in said botto|n,and secured thereto f by screws passing through a iiange on said cone and entering nuts soldered to said bottom, substantially as specified.

The conibinatioinwith sheet-metal eanisa ter-bottoni C, of stationary gri nding-cone `D .and bridge-piece E,secured tosaid bottoni C kby `screws entering threaded nuts soldered to said bottoni, substantially as specified.

fi. The con1bination,with bottom O, of body A,having an exteriorcrimp,a,and hinged box` K, provided with a spring-clamp adapted to fit over said crimp to fasten said box to the canister, substantially as specified.

5. The eoinliin-ation, with canister-body A, of

bottoni C, secured thereto, and box K,provided with a wireat its top, and hinged to said bottom C by a strap folded over .said wire'and soldered to said bottom, substantially as specified.

Chicago, Illinois, this17th day of October, A. D. 1883.

EDXVIN NORTON. W'itnesses:

TAYLOR E. BROWN, EDMUND Ancoox. 

